BIO
Amélie Guthrie grew up in New Orleans before studying art history at Vanderbilt University. There began her passion for providing art education to those without access to it. She spent a decade teaching underserved and unhoused children, mainly in Buenos Aires, New York, and Nashville. She was also fortunate enough to work in different galleries and studios in London, New York, Rome, Los Angeles, and Nashville. Through these diverse and impactful experiences Amélie nurtured her own artistic voice. While living in NYC she sculpted and showed large tree-like works and completed commissioned installations. She later carried this passion to Rome where she worked and showed a solo exhibition of her "fractal form" sculpture. Back in the States, she lived and showed in Nashville before moving to New Orleans. Today, she continues to sculpt and stitch large-scale embroidered work. Innately spiritual, her work celebrates the natural world and humanity's responsibility to cherish and protect it.
STATEMENT
Stitchery
With my embroidery, I examine the rapid destruction of our local paradise and I want to talk about saving it. While man destroys the Earth and her vulnerable creatures, I pine for policy change in our state and country to better protect our planet, specifically our vulnerable wetlands. Each stitch a prayer, I aim to empower the feminine spirits among us. In this sinking world on fire, female energy is crucial for its salvation. For too long feminine powers and perspective have been missing from environmental leadership. Therefore, I’ve chosen embroidery, a traditionally feminine artistic medium, as my means of communication. Often dismissed as a trite pastime for women, embroidery has been used for activism, prayer, and community galvanization for generations. With my own stitchery, I infuse and invoke feminine energies in this quest for environmental healing and salvation.
Sculpture
Earth is suffering, and she signals her slowing heartbeat. In response, I create celebrations of nature to call on viewers to cherish and protect our home and her inhabitants. Through my sculpture, I beckon our human family to marvel at the resplendence of nature’s fractal systems, especially the ones found in tree architecture. My illumination of these repeated forms of the natural world is a plea for their preservation.
Since my oak-enchanted childhood in New Orleans, I’ve felt that trees connected me to God, the Universe. Through symbolism and experience, I hear God’s voice through the branches, the roots. In reply, I sculpt fractal systems in reverent imitation of these forms, each sculpture like a prayer. Through these sculpted prayers, I express gratitude for the magnificence of trees, and I mourn what we’ve already lost.
However, not everyone sees trees in my art. Many identify other fractal forms like lightning or a river delta or the vascular system. I celebrate these diverse interpretations. It’s a reflection of the broader visual language present in my work: fractal systems.These are structures familiar to all of us. At this moment you have one firing in your brain and pulsing in your heart in the same design that the Nile flows over Africa and coral grows in the Great Barrier Reef. These repeating forms bind the Universe together. They are the veins of nature. Like silver blood of existence, my sculpture reminds you our environment is bleeding. It points you to nature’s majesty as well as the relationship of the veins in your arm to the veins in a leaf. Through this beauty and your elemental connection to it, I hope to galvanize your energies to bless and protect this splendid place called Earth.
With my embroidery, I examine the rapid destruction of our local paradise and I want to talk about saving it. While man destroys the Earth and her vulnerable creatures, I pine for policy change in our state and country to better protect our planet, specifically our vulnerable wetlands. Each stitch a prayer, I aim to empower the feminine spirits among us. In this sinking world on fire, female energy is crucial for its salvation. For too long feminine powers and perspective have been missing from environmental leadership. Therefore, I’ve chosen embroidery, a traditionally feminine artistic medium, as my means of communication. Often dismissed as a trite pastime for women, embroidery has been used for activism, prayer, and community galvanization for generations. With my own stitchery, I infuse and invoke feminine energies in this quest for environmental healing and salvation.
Sculpture
Earth is suffering, and she signals her slowing heartbeat. In response, I create celebrations of nature to call on viewers to cherish and protect our home and her inhabitants. Through my sculpture, I beckon our human family to marvel at the resplendence of nature’s fractal systems, especially the ones found in tree architecture. My illumination of these repeated forms of the natural world is a plea for their preservation.
Since my oak-enchanted childhood in New Orleans, I’ve felt that trees connected me to God, the Universe. Through symbolism and experience, I hear God’s voice through the branches, the roots. In reply, I sculpt fractal systems in reverent imitation of these forms, each sculpture like a prayer. Through these sculpted prayers, I express gratitude for the magnificence of trees, and I mourn what we’ve already lost.
However, not everyone sees trees in my art. Many identify other fractal forms like lightning or a river delta or the vascular system. I celebrate these diverse interpretations. It’s a reflection of the broader visual language present in my work: fractal systems.These are structures familiar to all of us. At this moment you have one firing in your brain and pulsing in your heart in the same design that the Nile flows over Africa and coral grows in the Great Barrier Reef. These repeating forms bind the Universe together. They are the veins of nature. Like silver blood of existence, my sculpture reminds you our environment is bleeding. It points you to nature’s majesty as well as the relationship of the veins in your arm to the veins in a leaf. Through this beauty and your elemental connection to it, I hope to galvanize your energies to bless and protect this splendid place called Earth.
PRESS
Adore Magazine 2024
"Metro Arts Nashville Local Art Acquisition" Nashville Arts Magazine
"International Women's Night" Adnkronos
"Literary Lights" Musing
"Trees of Life" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Creating the Un-Conference" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Tweet Exhibit" Children's Museum of the Arts, NYC
Adore Magazine 2024
"Metro Arts Nashville Local Art Acquisition" Nashville Arts Magazine
"International Women's Night" Adnkronos
"Literary Lights" Musing
"Trees of Life" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Creating the Un-Conference" Nashville Arts Magazine
"Tweet Exhibit" Children's Museum of the Arts, NYC
